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CYBER4All STAR

Hub information

EDIH Title

CYBERsecurity 4 All STAkeholdeRs

Geographical scope

National

Information

h.daskalov@edihtrakia.org

Description

Engaging Bulgarian (and European) SMEs, mid-caps and public sector organizations (PSOs) in wide-scale digital transformation has been a challenging endeavor over the past decade. Costs reduction, operations efficiency optimization, and citizens’ empowerment triggered deployment of diverse ICT technologies across the Union, however at disparate speed and penetration levels, and often in a fragmented mode.

Imminent cybersecurity threats ranging from lower level impact attacks, e.g. script kiddies, malware, etc. to highly sophisticated operations launched by cyber terrorists or state-sponsored actors are major challenges, which seem to be equally ambiguously addressed across the Union, leaving some stakeholders significantly more vulnerable than others. Ca. 60% of Dutch and German SMEs maintain log files for analysis after security incidents,while only 16-20% of Romanian and Bulgarian SMEs find it important to analyze those. Likewise, a cybersecurity breach landmark event of occurred in 2019 when the Bulgarian National Revenues Agency database was hacked, and personal data of more than 70% of all Bulgarian nationals was released online. 

To bridge the cybersecurity divide in Bulgaria and the EU, the Digital Innovation Hub "Trakia" was formed as an association in the South-Central Region of Bulgaria in 2021, and the "CYBER4AllSTAR" EDIH project was launched in early 2023, offering cybersecurity expertise, access to experimentation facilities and services, access to finance, and ecosystem networking with disruptive technology suppliers in line with the EDIH Trakia service proposition.

The Hub, coordinated by the oldest business union in Bulgaria (UPEE, member of ECSO), in collaboration with other Cybersecurity EDIHs across Europe (via the European Corridor of Cybersecurity EDIHs, initiated in 2022 by ECSO), is intended to offer a full range of cybersecurity services to all stakeholders with a special focus on SMEs, mid-caps and PSOs. Additionally, AI and HPC services are foreseen to be channeled to end users using the EDIH Network DTA-assisted capabilities. 

The ultimate goal is to make it easy, cost-efficient and technologically-friendly to learn about and to adopt cybersecurity solutions, powered by HPC and AI (among other technologies) on a mass and integrated scale.

 

Coordinator information

Contractual contact information

Hristian Daskalov
+359897813729

Operational contact information

Hristian Daskalov
+359897813729

Coordinator address

Osogovo str. 51
1000 Sofia
Bulgaria

Coordinator Business name

UNION FOR PRIVATE ECONOMIC ENTERPRISE (UPEE)

Coordinator Legal name

Coordinator department

Department
Project Management

Market and services

Technologies

Cybersecurity
5/5
Internet Services & Applications
4/5
Communication network
4/5
Artificial Intelligence & Decision support
3/5
Simulation engineering and modelling
3/5
Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
2/5
High performance computing
1/5
Quantum Technologies (computing/communication)
1/5

Sectors

Security
5/5
Defence
4/5
Public administration
4/5
Regulation
4/5
Education
4/5
Manufacturing and processing
3/5
Agricultural biotechnology and food biotechnology
3/5
Transport & Mobility
2/5

Services

Ecosystem building
5/5
SME support
5/5
Vocational training
4/5
Knowledge transfer
4/5
Public sector innovation
4/5
Technology transfer
3/5
Innovation management
3/5
Finance
3/5

Beneficiaries

Contact Name Role Country Address Business Name Legal Name Participant Type Website
Hristian Daskalov Partner Bulgaria 2 Drava str., 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria Digital Innovation Hub Trakia REC https://edihtrakia.org/
Velizar Shalamanov Affiliated Bulgaria Ul. Acad G. Bonchev bl 2, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria IICT - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences HES http://www.iict.bas.bg/EN/index.html
- Affiliated Bulgaria 24 tzar asen, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV PAISII HILENDARSKI HES http://www.uni-plovdiv.bg
Miglen Evlogiev Affiliated Bulgaria Bul. Simeonovsko Shose 93 B, fl. 3, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria Bulgarian Cybersecurity Association OTH https://cybersecbg.org
- Affiliated Bulgaria Stefan Stambolov square 1, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria MUNICIPALITY OF PLOVDIV PUB https://plovdiv.bg